“I have something for you, I’ll send it over. You know for four years now I have been trying to propagate shiso and it hasn’t grown. I tried everything: freezing and thawing the seeds, leaving them in the dark for a year, different temperatures and humidity… The seeds Taro sent me in February came up no problem, just in fine soil with a sheet of paper over the pot outside, no special equipment or lights. Crazy. The kitchen garden at home is now being taken over by green shiso plants with huge leaves everywhere. We have a glut, as the English call it. Fearful of it not reseeding and growing next year I’ve been stripping the leaves and producing shiso sugar syrup and shiso-infused vodka. The vodka is unbelievably good! I thought of proposing it to ABSOLUT as a new flavour. We’ll see. Anyway, I have a bottle for you! ”

This book cannot be ordered from FRANCE as it is unlawful to promote
alcohol in association to cultural events, of which an
artists’ cocktail publication most possibly belongs to
(loi Evin 1991). Thank you merci for your understanding and
we invite you to browse the other wonderful books from DDL.

‘Echt/70º’ brings together a collection of Bedwyr Williams’ texts and images from two recent video works: ‘Echt’, which was part of GI Festival 2014, is a narrated tale about a fast track feudal system in a future Britain where planning officers are forced to choreograph awful dance routines alluding to their own demise and shoe laces are tied into colossal knots on the soles of shoes signify to status. And ‘Hotel 70º’ first presented in MOSTYN, Llandudno, is a tale of a fish, an intelligent couple, a driver with hen angst and a man who runs so fast into a corner he becomes a wedge: the narrative is set in a CGI recreation of the extraordinary Colwyn Bay hotel that was demolished a decade ago.

The book features new texts written by Tai Shani, Dan Fox and Mark & Stephen Beasley responding to the notion of a hotel with 70º corners, and was published to coincide with Williams’ solo exhibition at Salzburger Kunstverein 04.10 – 30.11.2014

On the 11th of July 2023, Mr and Mrs Boetti discover on the side of a walking trail between les Carroz d’Arraches and Samoens in the French Alps, a neatly folded pile of women clothing. They have not met anybody for more than two hours and intrigued by the idea that someone culd have left the trail, naked—and to go where?—the couple empty the pockets and only find a wallet. The full content of this wallet is represented on this scarf.
After having called the police and slightly shaken by the discovery, they return to Turin where they live. The first night, both of them have the same dream. They are in a bar somewhere in the midwest, in the States.. In their dream, a young woman seat at their table despite the place being rather empty. For Mrs Boetti she is blonde, for Mr Boetti, she is dark haired and reminds him of Pocahontas from the Disney movie. After what seems to be a slightly uncomfortable silence the young woman ask them if they would like to see something. They suddenly feel at ease and nod positively to her request to realise the content of her wallet is already spread across the table.

This is the story our friend Charlotte told us in what has become a detailed description of what was on the table that night. We have found or recreated each element to translate visually what had remained a story which haunted us for a while.

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This Scarf, co-published by Mapoésie and Dent-De-Leone is sometimes performed with the story of the objects represented.

“I have something for you, I’ll send it over. You know for four years now I have been trying to propagate shiso and it hasn’t grown. I tried everything: freezing and thawing the seeds, leaving them in the dark for a year, different temperatures and humidity… The seeds Taro sent me in February came up no problem, just in fine soil with a sheet of paper over the pot outside, no special equipment or lights. Crazy. The kitchen garden at home is now being taken over by green shiso plants with huge leaves everywhere. We have a glut, as the English call it. Fearful of it not reseeding and growing next year I’ve been stripping the leaves and producing shiso sugar syrup and shiso-infused vodka. The vodka is unbelievably good! I thought of proposing it to ABSOLUT as a new flavour. We’ll see. Anyway, I have a bottle for you! ”

This book cannot be ordered from FRANCE as it is unlawful to promote
alcohol in association to cultural events, of which an
artists’ cocktail publication most possibly belongs to
(loi Evin 1991). Thank you merci for your understanding and
we invite you to browse the other wonderful books from DDL.

When we met Nathalie Rosticher Giordano, we could hardly believe the herculean project she was in charge of: to reconstruct the architectural history of Monaco, a place without a heritage structure, meaning both a rapid architectural change and without an official place to keep records, documents of the transformations. For years she sourced thousands of document befriending widows of architects and secretive private collectors. The colossal exhibition Monacopolis, juxtaposing the unrealised projects (Paul Maymont, Archigram, Jean Nouvel, Yona Friedman etc.) with the destroyed is now gone and the documents are slowly returning to their archival state. Luckily, this book is now available for those who missed the show. With its 660 pages and nearly 5kg, it is a reference book which is above all else a collection of iconographic sources : 850 color illustrations, most of them never shown before, according to a geographic zoning based on districts. Again, in those pages, the destroyed are juxtaposed to the never built.

Oh, and there is a text by our friend Momus alongside twelve estimated architecture experts.

]]>http://dentdeleone.co.nz/monacopolis/feed/0Take as long as you might take, you might take longhttp://dentdeleone.co.nz/takeaslongas/
http://dentdeleone.co.nz/takeaslongas/#commentsThu, 09 Jan 2014 16:26:51 +0000gemmahttp://dentdeleone.co.nz/?p=761 Take as long as you might take, you might take long by Ryan Gander
Photographs by Takashi Homma & Ryan Gander

Take as long as you might take, you might take long documents an installation by Ryan Gander, commissioned by and first exhibited at Daiwa Viewing Room, Hiroshima, Japan. A standard ceiling mounted sprinkler system in the otherwise empty gallery space is switched on for the duration of the show, the water being invisibly drained from the space and recycled back into the sprinkler system. During the exhibition Ryan Gander instigates and directs a photoshoot of three Japanese females modelling oversized Thom Browne men’s suits within the space. The images of the photoshoot are printed on the interior of the traditional Japanese binding method, meaning the reader must cut the publication to discover the hidden half of the book.

“I have something for you, I’ll send it over. You know for four years now I have been trying to propagate shiso and it hasn’t grown. I tried everything: freezing and thawing the seeds, leaving them in the dark for a year, different temperatures and humidity… The seeds Taro sent me in February came up no problem, just in fine soil with a sheet of paper over the pot outside, no special equipment or lights. Crazy. The kitchen garden at home is now being taken over by green shiso plants with huge leaves everywhere. We have a glut, as the English call it. Fearful of it not reseeding and growing next year I’ve been stripping the leaves and producing shiso sugar syrup and shiso-infused vodka. The vodka is unbelievably good! I thought of proposing it to ABSOLUT as a new flavour. We’ll see. Anyway, I have a bottle for you! ”

This book cannot be ordered from FRANCE as it is unlawful to promote
alcohol in association to cultural events, of which an
artists’ cocktail publication most possibly belongs to
(loi Evin 1991). Thank you merci for your understanding and
we invite you to browse the other wonderful books from DDL.

OuUnPo is a pan-European research node and a part of the international network Vision Forum. It is an itinerant laboratory for co-creating knowledge through artistic research and artistic production. OuUnPo creates platforms for dynamic meetings between artists, curators and researchers as it travels to different cities around the world.The visiting group incorporates both recurring contributors and temporary participants who are without distinction referred to as OuUnPonians. Two or three times per year, the group forms sessions in different countries, focusing on a given topic in connection to each place. Each OuUnPo session is curated by one or more OuUnPonians. This Portuguese OuUnPo session was organized by Claudia Squitieri and Samon Takahashi in the city Porto.